Quick, think what the big games of 2015 were. The Witcher 3, Rocket League, Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront... okay, so COD still landed itself in the top ten selling games of that year, but the games that were actually being talked about - that will be played again and again by a loyal community - are rejecting the cramped arena-shooting that is the 'Call of Duty formula'. A few years ago, COD-style twitch-shooters were all the rage. Quake, Unreal Tournament, Halo, Team Fortress... but gamers are wanting something a bit different from their games this generation. They want depth, innovation, anything that isn't a murky, brown FPS, really. It's been something we've been tired of for a while, the perfect example being this marketing campaign from 2011... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7r9RqWBdl8
Currently living the dream by studying in Wales and writing articles about the things I love for beer money. My proudest achievements are teaching myself Accordion and getting my head round the off-side rule.
